Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.